Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web for you. Today you’ll find out the reason Linus was so afraid of The Great Pumpkin; an amazing Nightmare Before Christmas cake; some Game Of Thrones illustrations; and a great short film about a Door to Door salesman. All that and more on this edition of SR’s Geek Picks!

To kick things off today, NeatoRama has the 12 best geeky costumes for Halloween 2012.

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Cartoon Fails: The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Linus’s blanket keeps him safe from almost everything. Except homicide.

This is the unreleased Peanuts Halloween special you weren’t supposed to see. Who knew Charles Schultz could go all Tarantino on the gang?

Tony Hawk Interviews Louis C.K. About Dane Cook, Reddit & Louie

Louis CK is smart, funny, poignant, crude, inappropriate and innovative; all the qualities of a genius in my opinion. I caught up with him in Detroit on his current tour and fanned out backstage.
–Tony Hawk